You may be a tool enthusiast if:
- You sometimes dream about tools.*
- Every long distance out of town trip or vacation must include visiting at least one tool shop.
- You get easily frustrated when you see people misusing the wrong tools for the job. No, slotted screwdrivers are NOT crowbars, and a butterknife is NOT a screwdriver or prybar.
- You develop a strong frustration when a colleague replaces a broken tool for the 5th time at $10 each in a year because the higher quality tool you recommended in the first place was “way too expensive” at $25.
- Delivery truck drivers and mail carriers dread the beginning of the month when your tool budget resets itself and the new month’s sales flyers and tool catalogs start rolling in.
*This will usually happen when shopping for a particular tool online right before bed; last night I managed to decide to try out one brand of precision pliers over another!!
Please feel free to share your own points with us via the comments!
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ArmchairDIY
May I add number 6 ?
6. You have a two foot high stack of tool catalogs conveniently located in the bathroom.
Great list, I read it nodding my head yes to all five.
Stuart Deutsch
Absolutely!
My wife would never approve of catalogs in the bathroom, so they’re kept in various places.
Everyone, feel free to add additional points!
SharkBreath
7. Your vehicle can drive itself to Sears, Woodcraft, and Northern Tools.
8. Even though you don’t buy ‘gimmicky’ tools anymore, you love getting them for Christmas.
Jay A
9. You find “spare” time to write an entire blog on the subject and update it daily.
uthscsaedu
These don’t really fit on this list….
**I get really irritated when I borrow someone’s sockets, and they don’t have them on rails, just scattered in a drawer!! It makes absolutely no sense – how can you find anything?
**OWNING the correct tool, but not having it when you need it really frustrates me. For example I have some specialty tools – I go out of town to visit family for Christmas – a family member’s car requires repair which could use this very tool, however I don’t have it with me!
uthscsaedu
Here’s one that’s more appropriate –
I was at work and a cabinet had a loose screw. A coworker said she had a screwdriver lying around and went to get it. She returned with a hard-handle Snap on screwdriver!!
I said, wow, Snap-on!
She said something like, I have no idea what it is, I just found it lying around somewhere.
sheesh!!
arkangel06
to the above
I try to convince them into trading me it for a BRAND NEW chinese driver 😛
rusty
Isn’t that when you break out the chrome plated 25 function thing someone got you for Xmass and dazzle her into trading?
If all else fails break out the chocolates.
uthscsaedu
I bet if I just asked her for it she would give it to me!
It’s not a mechanics shop, just a medical office, so I have no idea how a screwdriver like that would even find it’s way there.
uthscsaedu
10. Your front porch collapses and kills more than three dogs.
11. You mow your lawn and find a car
12. You’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
opps, wrong list!
uthscsaedu
LOL I just added some $10 pliers to reach the Amazon $25 super saving limit!!
Shed Plans Man
Absolutely right!! 🙂 I agree with all the five list , I couldn’t add more.
Maikeru
Here are a few multi-tool related ones…
10. You can’t believe your Eagle Scout cousin doesn’t own and has never owned any sort of multi-tool.
11. You already own an awesome multi-tool (Leatherman Charge TTi), but still miss the old one that it replaces.
12. You seriously consider getting another multi-tool due to there being a sale on it despite already owning a great multi-tool with more tools on it.
13. You hear that the average life-span of a butterfly-folder format multi-tool is 3-4 years and start to make calculations of how many of your favourite model you need to purchase to make sure that you always that model strapped to your side.
14. You carry a separate dedicated folding knife just because you worry about wearing out the blade on your multi-tool.
15. You hear that people actually disassemble and re-assemble these tools to contain the features and types of knives that they need and thus start to browsing various multi-tool sites in order to build The Perfect Tool.
16. You extend your love of the multifunction nature of multi-tools to everything you own; all of your gear now has at least 5 different functions.
17. You decide that your dog doesn’t have enough features and thus build him a collar that includes a canteen barrel, a survival knife, a container for a flint, a flashlight, and a water filtration unit.
18. People start to refer to you as “Inspector Gadget” because of your extensive EDC.
…and some normal ones…
19. Your car’s trunk has a lot in common with the interior of a Snap-On tool truck.
20. You refuse to remove the portable generator and from your trunk and thus invest in upgrading your car’s suspension to carry it and the rest of your tools.
21. Due to you being their best customer, your local hardware store abolishes their employee of the month parking space and devotes it to you.
Stuart
Haha, thanks Maikeru , love the list! Thanks for sharing!
I do tend to go nuts over multi-tools as well. I don’t need any more, but have a hard time resisting great sales.